Recaps

The Human Federation launched a campaign across the Orion Arm’s Minor Arm while Lin Fan’s forces prepared Shanhai Pass for the Babawi Empire’s advance. The Federation destroyed Babarot’s invasion fleet with Railguns and the Star Cannon, but Lin Fan warned that a far larger attack could come within five to ten years.

• Verto’s offensive drew the Vera and Freedom Alliances into war, while Lin Zhen and Ed organized a campaign to bring the Orion Arm’s Minor Arm under Human Federation control.
• Lin Fan raided Babawi trade hubs and evaded Babarot’s pursuit as Liang Xingchen led the allied campaign against the Sesia Civilization and defeated its defenders.
• Liang Xingchen’s forces attacked the Otto Empire, prompting Babareya to authorize a hundred legions against the Io Federation.
• Lin Fan prepared Shanhai Pass for the Babawi invasion, ordering ten million Railguns and inspecting the Starry Sky Defense Network and its Star Cannon.
• The Zola Alliance broke through Vera’s defenses in the Galactic Core Channel, intensifying the war between the major alliances.
• Babarot’s fleet crossed the Starless Belt through the Taylor Star Path and secured a costly foothold at Shanhai Pass, where Lin Fan’s forces drew it toward their defenses.
• The Federation’s Railgun volleys inflicted heavy losses on Babarot’s fleet before the Star Cannon destroyed most of the remaining ships and killed Babarot.
• Lin Fan’s forces destroyed the Babawi remnants at Shanhai Pass, and Liang Xue reported heavy Federation losses as Lin Fan warned of a larger invasion within five to ten years.

As the Federation uncovered a compensation scandal and advanced with spatial gate technology, the Vera and Xio Alliances shattered the Freedom and Zola fleets while an insect swarm spread across the Milky Way. Lin Fan diverted Babania’s invading fleet into insect-occupied space and watched the Babawi forces fight the swarm, where they encountered the deadly Sprayers.

• Lin Zhen exposed officials who had diverted compensation from 1.6 million fallen soldiers, and Lin Fan arranged for Haorwen and the other principal offenders to be executed at Shanhai Pass.
• The Vera and Xio Alliances trapped and destroyed the combined Zola and Freedom fleet at the Satchers Defense Line, then advanced against the weakened Freedom Alliance.
• Bai Zixuan successfully tested the Gate of Space, and the Federation deployed Star Gates that reduced travel between Earth and Shanhai Pass to seven minutes.
• An insect swarm emerged near Deo VII, overwhelmed the defenders, and spread through the region as Hasso and Verto investigated its capabilities.
• Lin Fan took command of the 35.88 million warships gathered at Shanhai Pass to face Babania’s approaching 30 million warships.
• Lin Fan used Bai Zixuan’s fleet-class Super Star Gate to divert Babania’s fleets from Virallas into the insect-occupied Deo Star System.
• Babania’s forces encountered hundreds of billions of Combat Bugs, and Lin Fan’s Warp Interruption Devices prevented part of the fleet from escaping by warp.
• Babadiila tested the Sprayers’ range against the insects, and they destroyed nearly seven hundred warships before the survivors withdrew.

The Federation trapped and defeated the Babawi Empire, then joined the wider struggle against the Zerg while preparing to explore beyond the Milky Way. The arc ended with Socrates launching a massive assault on the Viers Defense Line.

• Socrates’s Sprayer Bugs annihilated most of Babadiila’s fleet, while Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen concluded that intelligent bugs were directing the insect race.
• Babania’s forces emerged from the Star Path into a Federation ambush, and repeated Star Cannon strikes devastated the Babawi fleets until the Empire destroyed the Star Path to escape.
• Bai Zixuan developed Zero-Point technology that restored the Federation’s ability to travel and strike through the Super Star Gate, and Lin Fan used spatial bombs to devastate the Babawi Capital Sphere.
• Lin Fan’s fleet overwhelmed Babatena’s remaining forces, accepted his surrender, and took control of the Capital Sphere before moving on to Relsas.
• Verto persuaded the Milky Way’s leaders to amend the Planetary Life Convention and form a massive guerrilla force to attack Zerg-occupied planets.
• Lin Tian became King of Angels, pushed for a place in the expedition to the Large Magellanic Cloud, and was appointed its commander as the Human and Io Federations began merger negotiations.
• The alliance strike units began destroying Zerg planets, and Socrates ordered trillions of mature Zerg to attack the Viers Defense Line.

Lin Fan established the Federation’s presence in the Large Magellanic Cloud, brought the Estelle Empire into the Federation, and developed defenses against the Void Dragons. The arc ended with Bilodis’s fleet surrounded by more than twenty-five million Void Dragons concealed on nearby planets.

• Verto and the other Level 5 leaders agreed to mobilize the Milky Way against the insect race and recognize the Orion Arm civilization in exchange for its support.
• Lin Zhen gave Lin Fan leadership of the Large Magellanic Cloud region, and Lin Fan set out with three Sector-Class Fleets to develop it.
• Lin Fan’s fleet rescued the Titaro Civilization from the Void Dragons, then established an outpost and chose Aode as the region’s future capital.
• Bilodis met Lin Fan, and Queen Alwen agreed to join the Human Federation after Bilodis warned that the Estelle Empire could not withstand a full-scale Planet Devourer offensive.
• The Federation’s rapid-response fleets rescued the Hera Republic and helped bring more than two thousand Level 2 and Level 3 civilizations into its affiliated system.
• Bai Zixuan tested the Spatial Shield against weapons, drones, and a Void Dragon, after which Lin Fan ordered the devices mass-produced for the Federation’s warships.
• Bilodis’s Second Fleet faced five million main force clan Void Dragons, and her Spatial Shield-equipped ships charged through the swarm while the rest of the fleet concentrated fire.
• Lin Fan warned Bilodis to scan the surrounding planets, and more than twenty-five million Void Dragons emerged and charged the Second Fleet from every direction.